The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

of the Peace. drink one full gallon Of butter
milk in the space of seven minutes, ana IhelooS
won an accordion valued at 50
In the window Of boarding -house in West
ern town the following notice is posted; Inns
| amt Boardin House: its just an ornery pam
hash house. But don't pass 1t by on Ill ma az az
count for there amt no better IN the nun us
| gins
THE Latin ode which the Eton boys sung al
their jubilee celebration was composed, words
and music, by DR.. Ware while dreaming
! While Ware has no scientific knowledge OF
music musical experts declare that the June ID
an excellent piece of recitatlve.
The cost of the British medical army staff IS
f24O,OO0 year. but, in addition, there is an item
of e200,O0O year for pensions to retired doctors
| and surgeons. The medical officers retlfe from
| the service at IS years of age, and receive pen
| sions for the remainder Of their days.
The Chinese law requires every householder
to hang at his front door list of the inmates
of his house. 1t seems as though it ought to be
easy to make an accurate census. BY one
which the officials of the empire have recently
afforded, the population is 450,OOO,OOO.
A STANDARD THERMOMETER is made with dial
upon which the figures are as easily read as
upon a clock In this instrument strips of
metal which are equally acted upon by heat
and cold, are Soldered together in the form
of spiFals the action of the temperature is null
tiphed by delicate wheels and piniens. ''.
VICTOR HUGO did not know the amount of his
fortune until some friends in 1884, inquired Of
the Rothschilds. They discovered that he had
nearly 100000 francs deposited with them, and
aStonlshed him greatly when they acquainted
him with the fact. He was then getting yearly
royalties from his works of 10000 francs So
says the Paris Figaro.
THE public lands of Mexico is still an I'M
known quantity. survey has been in prog
resS for two or three years, which has resulted
in mapping out 10000. 900 acres. The survey
has not yet comprised the entire area of two of
the tWenty-Seven States of the republic. These
lands, as fast they are surveyed, will be
thrown open to colonization.
Rev. 1. C. BAGLEY of Camden, n j. was
called upon by a stylish looking couple who
desired to be welded There being no impedi-
ment, the pastor soon made them one flesh.
Then the groom handed the clergyman large
official envelope marked "A present, with
thanks Upon opening the envelope Mr.. Bag
Icy found inclosed the sum of 10c.
IT is amusing to see that in future the Indian
pilgrims to Mecca, will by agreement with the
government, be in charge of the European tour
list agency. Tickets are to be issued at all the
Mohammedan centerS and the pilgrims will-ren-
devious at Bombay, where the great tour agents
will take charge of them and be responsible for
their safe conduct to the tomb of the prophet
and back.
THERE is a firm in Berlin that employs 200
girls who manufacture little bundles of anti
septic dressing material, with which all German
soldiers are to be supplied in future, so that
they may be able to dress their own wounds in
the absence of a surgeon. The girls are all
dressed in white linen cloaks and are strictly
forbidden to bring victualS or anything else into
the room where they work.
THE University of Kings College. Windsor.
Nova Scotia, is the oldest of all the British
which it was founded in 1888 explicitly provides
that its academical habits shall be the same as
those of the University of Oxford. And its
encenia SIS conducted every year with all the
pOmp and circumstance of an Oxford encenia.
The Rev. DR.. Isaac Brock, Oxon., is the presi-
dent.
THE editor of the Webster IN. c. Weekly
thus apologies for the appearance of so much
original. grave matter in recent issue of his
paper: Our shears are sadly in need of sharp
ening. The rivet is loose, and when we try to
clip an article they wobble through the paper
like a turkey gObbler with a sunstroke, and
CRATE with an unearthly sound. The process of
cutting has become so disagreeable that we
have been forced to put in more original matter
of late. y
THE length to which blind credulity will go
has just been illustrated in the case of a man in
Frankfort, Ky. He had been a sufferer from
asthma for years, and on being told recently by
a friend that if he would swallow few bird shot
every day for few weeks he would be cured
he promptly began to do so. After he had
swallowed about four pounds violent symptoms
of lead poisoning were developed and the man
was obliged to go to a physician. His life was
saved but he still has asthma as bad as ever
DURING the last fifty years, since Queen Vic
toria was crowned in Westminster, the French
count up the reign of Louis Philippe down to
Feb. a, lS4o the republic from Feb "a to Dec
10, 1913: the Presidency of Louis Napoleon b.
naparte to Dec. 2, 1851; the empire from No
vember 1852; then the DOWNFALL; next the gov
eminent of National Defense, on Sept. 4, 1870;
then the Presidency of NJ Theirs, in 1871 until
May "a, 1873; next that of MacMahon to the
month of January, 1872 and lastly, the republic
of President Grevy.
A BANK VAULT EXPERT says in the ST. Louis
Globe Democrat that there are not exceeding
half dozen irst-class safe robbers in the coun-
try, and that he knows them all by their work
One of these men might almost as well leave
his name behind him as a mark of his work and
he can very well destroy all trace of it. The
following is given in illustration: Il remember
one case was called on to investigate in Ohio
looked over the work and remarked We'll if
didn't do this myself it was my old boy He
had learned his trade under me, and | knew
every mark he had made. The detective worked
the case up on that clew, he was arrested,
found guilty and is now serving twenty years
sentence in the penitentiary." The vaults now
being built, it is said are so difficult to enter
that IT would not be worth the risk. Too much
RUMoR got loose in San Francisco the other
day that Mr.. Frederick Gebhard was in that
city, where Mrs. Langtry is now playing, but
the Alto investigated il and found it baseless
1T came, says that journal. from a brake
man on one of the overland cars He had mys-
terlously limited at seeing man in long buster
and with bundle under his arm, which re-
sembed hat-boX, riding on the bIakebeatn
under the LangtTy car as it was whirled across
the plains. The brakeman, il is said even went
so far as TO say that this was the infatuated
Freddie, and that upon his arrival here he
dropped the duster disclosing a rich broadcloth
suit, and reSurrected shiny plug hat from the
depths of his bundle. He then registered at an
obscure waterfront hotel. This rumor WAS
quickly laid by a co-worRer with the brakeman
who coldly asserted that the story was a fabri
cation as far as the refugee under the car being
Freddie was concerned. He stated that the
rider upon the Langtry brakebeam was an
eccentric Italian nobeman who was enioying
his vacation in his own peculiar way, and who
was bent upon investing a small part of his
colossal fortune in chestnut plantation"
NJ. CoQuELIN will, it is said, reioin the com
pany of the Theatre Francois after his return
from his American tour. He means to spend
the next few months in some quiet spot in the
country. and to devote himself To the compost.
ton OF the treatise on acting which he has long
been meditating. "L'Art du Camedien " as II
is TO be called. viii contain everything that the
actors experience and his Constant and pos
siOnate study of the masters have taught him.
and he starts with the assumption, which il will
be the main object Of the work to establish
that acting Is purely conventional art
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